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Romantic Partners Can Influence Each Other’s Assumptions and Behaviors on Climate Change, Study Finds

Romantic Partners Can Influence Each Other’s Assumptions and Behaviors on Climate Change, Study Finds

Romantic partners can be the sounding boards for each other’s thoughts on all sorts of issues, including the climate crisis. But, until recently, there hadn’t been much examination of whether one partner’s views on climate change could influence the other’s. A research team led by the Yale School of the Environment’s Yale Program on Climate […]

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    James Murdoch Slams His Father’s Climate-Denying Media Empire

    James Murdoch Slams His Father’s Climate-Denying Media Empire

    James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn spoke out against the climate crisis denials pushed by his father’s media empire in an exclusive statement released to the Daily Beast. James is the younger son of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch who owns News Corp, and the younger brother of Lachlan Murdoch who runs Fox News. […]

    Make the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay the $2 Billion Bushfire Recovery Fund

    Make the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay the $2 Billion Bushfire Recovery Fund

    By Andy Rowell After weeks of inaction and ineptitude as his country burns, as a billion animals die, with entire species potentially wiped out, and with dozens of people dead and communities and lives ripped apart, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has finally slumbered into action. Over the weekend, Morrison tweeted, “We’re putting more Defense […]

    Carbon Emissions Rise to Highest Level in at Least Three Million Years

    Carbon Emissions Rise to Highest Level in at Least Three Million Years

    By Andy Rowell The press release from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says it all: “Another year, another record.” It is a record we do not want. It is a record of political failure. It is a record based on the politics of climate denial. We have crossed another climate threshold that, yet again, signals […]

    ExxonMobil on Trial Over Climate ‘Lies’

    ExxonMobil on Trial Over Climate ‘Lies’

    By Sabrina Kessler Far-reaching allegations about how a climate-sinning American multinational could shamelessly lie to the public about its wrongdoing mobilized a small group of New York students on a cold November morning. They stood in front of New York’s Supreme Court last week to follow the unprecedented lawsuit against ExxonMobil. The case is not […]

    Senators Form Bipartisan Climate Caucus to Encourage ‘Honest Dialogue’

    Senators Form Bipartisan Climate Caucus to Encourage ‘Honest Dialogue’

    The U.S. Senate’s bipartisan climate caucus started with just two members, a Republican from Indiana and a Democrat from Delaware. Now it’s up to eight members after two Democrats, one Independent and three more Republicans joined the caucus last week, as The Hill reported. In unsurprising fashion, the eight senators who joined the caucus acknowledged […]